Daley Thompson Quotes

With sports, there's no entitlement on the field. It's about numbers. It's about results. It's about outcomes.

I grew up playing sports. There is a clear line between success and failure.

Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.

I think life is sort of like a competition, whether it's in sports, or it's achieving in school, or it's achieving good relationships with people. And competition is a little bit of what it's all about.

There is no life without sport and no sport without competition.

Coaching is easy. Winning is the hard part.

If somebody is strong and showing good performances and perfect in the thing you are doing, there are people who want to disturb you.

Sports were a big part of my life. I was the captain of the basketball team in high school, and captain of the basketball team at Princeton.

Life wasn't easy growing up; it was frustrating. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily, everything would have come easily, and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.

The thing I like most about football is it's a meritocracy.

For me, it is important to win titles and for that I need to work hard, stay healthy and be able to compete. The rest, I always say, it comes.

Swimming isn't everything, winning is.

We knew that you don't get to be world champions without a struggle.

You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.

I don't think there is anything owed to us. You've got to go out and work hard for every round win.

Where we can compete on merit, we do very well.

I've learned that winning isn't everything, and it's more about the journey. But at the end of the day, I just want to stand on the podium with the gold medal.

In the end, the great leveler in any sport is performance on the field or on the court. Kids don't care what language players speak or if they eat tacos, rice, or sauerkraut. They don't care if they're white, black, or brown.

I didn't aspire to be a good sport; 'champion' was good enough for me.

If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.

Sports is human life in microcosm.

You may be in a medical or engineering college, but not all will stand first in class. It depends on who studies the most.

I think God has it written down for me, that without training and working hard you will never achieve desired results. All three times I have had to toil my way into the Olympics. Talking about pressure, well that is something you have to learn to deal with in sports.

If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily... and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.

I believe in competition.